{"product_id":"9781573668361","title":"Impotent: A Novel","description":"\u003ci\u003eImpotent\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of moving stories about a time when \"it is easier to get a refill on a prescription than approval for therapy\" and individuals are reduced to letters on a medical chart. In revealing vignettes, Matthew Roberson clinically catalogs the hopes, dreams, and failures of people identified only through form-like abbreviations (C— for co-dependent, I— for Insured). In these \"case studies,\" Roberson captures his subjects' lives poignantly by supplementing their diagnoses with unconventional footnotes, lists, and medicinal warnings. Each vignette exposes a different facet of our medicated society, humanizing a multitude of conditions: depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, impotence, and dementia. In a world of domestic ennui, deadpan voices struggle to transcend numbness while simultaneously trying to manage the pain of living. \u003ci\u003eImpotent\u003c\/i\u003e is both important social commentary and engrossing fiction.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129078202608,"sku":"9781573668361","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781573668361_p0.jpg?v=1763781715","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781573668361","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}